Best in the league?

[Luckycat]

Sorry if I have missed this discussion but today's DM Register, in a story of a Drake 7 footer transfering out, included this:

"Phelps meanwhile finds himself with one extra scholarship and a chance to supplement a 2010 recruiting class of four already deemed the best in the Missouri Valley Conference."

True and who?

[casbern]

Re: Best in the league?

Sorry if I have missed this discussion but today's DM Register, in a story of a Drake 7 footer transfering out, included this:

"Phelps meanwhile finds himself with one extra scholarship and a chance to supplement a 2010 recruiting class of four already deemed the best in the Missouri Valley Conference."

True and who?

If you take a look on ESPN's Conference Board.. http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/recru...%3fconfId%3d18 one could argue that they do have a pretty damn good class coming in. However, just because you are highly ranked by scouts/espn, doesn't mean that it'll always pan out on the floor. Their class does look pretty formidable though.

[Kyle]

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SIU

Kaboom

[9YRPLAN]

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i would agree that drake has the best class coming in

[UNI83]

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It's pretty tough to argue against Drake's class being the best in the conference. However, had Doug stayed with UNI I feel we would have had the better class.


Oh well, look at SIU's 2008 (I think) class.

[ubuntuCAT]

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Wrong, Mac at Creighton has the best class and it isn't even close

[Panther-Sheik]

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Wrong, Mac at Creighton has the best class and it isn't even close

R.I.P. '96 Alum

[SpanishMoon]

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Drake is building a Monster. What a class.

[96' Alum]

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R.I.P. '96 Alum

Nah there is nobody else that I would want coaching a conference rival ......Just wait until he stands there on the sidelines and directs his players to the point where they have no idea what to do. That will ensure that they underacheive.

Maybe he will go and put little tape boxes in the corner again, and direct the offense through those like he did with Staiger.

It will be especially good after he starts showing Dougie and whoever the best players left there special treatment.....That "family atmosphere" will crumble like a rotted foundation.

I just hope that he has more kids that he can use to get his next job.

[SpanishMoon]

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Nah there is nobody else that I would want coaching a conference rival ......Just wait until he stands there on the sidelines and directs his players to the point where they have no idea what to do. That will ensure that they underacheive.

Maybe he will go and put little tape boxes in the corner again, and direct the offense through those like he did with Staiger.

It will be especially good after he starts showing Dougie and whoever the best players left there special treatment.....That "family atmosphere" will crumble like a rotted foundation.

I just hope that he has more kids that he can use to get his next job.

Wow. Bitter, much?

[pantherfan4ever]

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Nah there is nobody else that I would want coaching a conference rival ......Just wait until he stands there on the sidelines and directs his players to the point where they have no idea what to do. That will ensure that they underacheive.

Maybe he will go and put little tape boxes in the corner again, and direct the offense through those like he did with Staiger.

It will be especially good after he starts showing Dougie and whoever the best players left there special treatment.....That "family atmosphere" will crumble like a rotted foundation.

I just hope that he has more kids that he can use to get his next job.

still bitter about Doug leaving UNI and then taking Doug when he moved to CU, hu.... get over it, life isn't fair. Mac left UNI for a big 12 school, hard to argue with that, even if it was ISU. HUGE money, chance to coach in the big 12... and then he took his SON from UNI.. Hard to argue with that either. I wish him luck! Our program wouldn't be where it is today if Mac wouldn't have coached here and brought Jacobson with him.

[SteinPizza]

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I just hope that he has more kids that he can use to get his next job.

Wow, not sure even where to start here. What in the Holy Hell is wrong with angling for your next job?!?!? The players are "using" Mac, or whatever coach and school, for a free education and a chance to make money playing their sport. In that regard, it's a perfect symbiotic relationship. To think otherwise means the person holding that opinion lives in a utopia that doesn't exist. The same line of thinking says you choose the school first and foremost, not the coach or his system. "Your loyalty lies with the school", says that crowd. That's utopia style thinking too, IMO. '96, I assume you don't have a problem with someone pursuing upward mobility, but that's kind of what you're arguing with statements like the one above.

Also, to the Mac bashers...did you really think that he was going to stay at UNI forever after successfully rebuilding the program? He could've left for Timbuktu State or Iowa State, I could care less, because it's logically irrelevant. It may be emotionally relevant to some, and that's fine. But, if he left then or now, or for whatever destination - it doesn't matter. Come to think of it, you could make a good case for Iowa State and Timbuktu State being the same school, but that's another thread.

Mac stuck around long enough at both spots to cover his bases, IMO. He didn't pull a Chizek, although you can't fault him too much if a job like Auburn comes up when comparing it to ISU.

[BryceC]

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Mac stuck around long enough at both spots to cover his bases, IMO. He didn't pull a Chizek, although you can't fault him too much if a job like Auburn comes up when comparing it to ISU.

Cover his bases? As in, make sure the ISU program is completely torpedoed?

[BCPanther]

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I also didn't expect Mac to stop in Chicago on the way back from Dayton to interview for the K-State job, which was a trainwreck at the time.

I have no problem that Mac left, I do have a problem with how he went about it.

[Trapped in California]

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I have no problem that Mac left, I do have a problem with how he went about it.

Ditto.


As for '96 Alum - did Mac steal your girlfriend and your Mom on the same night, or what? Dude, let it go.